Expert podcast audio, turned into claims you can check.

PodInsightHQ builds intelligence tools for venture and technology teams. Our system transcribes and indexes expert podcasts, finds what is actually being claimed, and links every claim back to the moment it was spoken.

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a16z Podcast 28 August 2026

Nothing appears without a source. If a claim cannot be played back, it does not ship.

4,821: episodes indexed
35: shows
4,416: hours of transcribed audio
759,107: entity mentions extracted

Verified 4 September 2026. Coverage runs from January 2025 and the library is growing quickly, expanding beyond technology and venture into healthcare, energy and public policy.

How it works

Transcribe: Episode audio is fetched and converted to text with speaker and word-level timing, so every sentence keeps the timecode it came from.
Index: Transcripts are split, embedded and stored in a vector search index, then reranked at query time so a question in plain English finds the passage that answers it.
Extract: A language model reads the retrieved passages and writes what is being claimed, along with the companies, people and products named. Aliases and misspellings are reconciled so the same company counts once.
Verify: Every claim carries the episode, the speaker and the timecode. Clicking play cuts the clip from the original audio at that moment. A claim that fails this check is dropped rather than published.

Built on AWS

The whole system runs in AWS in Frankfurt, and is designed to cost close to nothing when idle and scale up on ingestion days.

Speech to text: Amazon Transcribe converts every episode to timed text.
Search: Amazon OpenSearch Serverless holds the vector index, with embedding and reranking models run through Amazon Bedrock.
Language models: Amazon Bedrock running Claude for claim extraction, entity extraction and written briefs.
Pipeline and storage: AWS Lambda and Amazon S3 handle ingestion, audio clipping and raw storage in eu-central-1.

Where we are

PodInsightHQ is a private build. The system is running against the full library, and the intelligence layer is in active development. It is not open for sign-up, and there is nothing to buy yet. If you want to talk about it, email founder@podinsighthq.com.